“Tatars in Finland in the Transnational Context of the Baltic Sea Region”

Wednesday, 17 October, 2018 at 10:00-17:00. Aleksanteri Institute, Unioninkatu 33, meeting room, 2nd floor meeting room (entrance via the inner courtyard)

The event is free of charge and open for all. Please sign up at:

https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/91695/lomake.html

Program

10:00 Registration and coffee

10:15 Welcome: Kaarina Aitamurto, Aleksanteri Institute

Introduction to the seminar topic, Sabira Ståhlberg, independent researcher

10:30 Cultural encounter in mobile trade Tatar pedlars in the Grand Duchy of Finland, 1870–1920, Johanna Wassholm, Åbo Akademi

11:00 Language as a fundamental component of identity within the Tatar community in Finland, Orsolya Kiss, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest

11:30 The “Tatar way” of understanding and practising Islam in Estonia, Ege Lepa, Tartu Ülikool

12:00 Lunch

13:30 Connections between the Muslim community in Petrograd-Leningrad and Tatars in Finland during the 1920s, Renat Bekkin, Södertörn University

14:00 Sources to the early Tatar community in Sweden, Simon Sorgenfrei, Södertörn University

14:30 Religion, ethnicity and language in the Finnish Tatar community, Andreas Ali Jonasson, Södertörn University

15:00 Coffee break

15:30 “Our Secret Weapon” – Majority Prejudices and Minority Strategies of the Finnish Tatars 1880–1945, Ainur Elmgren, Helsinki University

16:00 Discussion: Future research perspectives

17:00 Conclusion